Songs for Christmas
04 December 2025, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Award-winning Spanish soprano Lorena Paz Nieto returns to Oxford for a programme of seasonal delights, including Christmas songs by Schubert, Cornelius, Chaminade and Strauss. With mulled wine and mince pies served at the end, this is a super way to enter the festive spirit and round off a great year of song!
Programme
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921)
- Weihnachten
- Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874)
- Die Könige (1856) Op. 8 no.3
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- Die heiligen drei Könige (1906) Op. 56 no.6
- Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
- Maria am Rosenstrauch
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Führ mich, Kind, nach Bethlehem (1890) no.5 from Spanisches Liederbuch: Geistliche Lieder
- Die ihr schwebet (1890) no.4 from Spanisches Liederbuch: Geistliche Lieder
- Bach-Busoni
- Wachet Auf
- Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944)
- Noël des Oiseaux
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison (1915) L139
- Adolph Adam (1803 - 1856)
- Minuit, chrétiens
- Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)
- Empress of Night
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
- December: Noël from The Seasons
- Eduard Toldrà (1895 - 1962)
- Cantarcillo (1941) from Seis canciones
- Joaquín Nin (1879 - 1949)
- Villancico Gallego
- Jesús de Nazareth
- Villancico Andaluz
